page_title: Fulano (band)
section_title: Formation and debut album (1984–1988)
hierarchical_section_title: Fulano (band) / History / Formation and debut album (1984–1988)
caption_attribution_description: Español: Arlette Jequier cantante chilena de destacados grupos de fusión de Chile tales como Fulano, Mediabanda, y su proyecto solista.
context_page_description: Fulano was a Chilean group of progressive rock, jazz fusion and experimental music. It is one of the most important groups in the development of jazz-rock, or as described by musicologist Juan Pablo González, of "anti-hegemonic eclecticism", since with six productions of high quality and virtuosity have been confirmed as pillars of the jazz rock bands and experimental music in Latin America.
  It was founded in Santiago de Chile in 1984 with members of the band Santiago del Nuevo Extremo; Jorge Campos, Cristián Crisosto, Jaime Vivanco, and Willy Valenzuela, added to Arlette Jequier, and Jaime Vásquez.
  His first period lasted between 1984 and 2003. They made four studio albums Fulano, En el Bunker, El infierno de los payasos, and Trabajos Inútiles, which were characterized by their creative complexity, and by the very original fusion of varied stylistic and musical elements. They also stood out for their instrumental and vocal virtuosity, and for their ironic, humorous, and especially rebellious lyrics against the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, and later against the Chilean transition to democracy.
context_section_description: In 1984, while participating in Santiago del Nuevo Extremo, Jorge Campos, Cristián Crisosto and Guillermo Valenzuela were rehearsing and experimenting new sounds. At one point, the trio, which called itself Mediabanda, invited Arlette Jequier, Jaime Vivanco, and then Jaime Vásquez to continue trying and looking for sounds for their new music, and that's how definitively Fulano emerged. It was formed in 1984 as a group that premeditatedly sought the development and fusion rock, jazz and various other styles that were mixing. The strongest influences of the band were found in creative modern musicians, most considered almost unattainable in the isolation and repression of Pinochet's dictatorial Chile from early 1980s, such as Weather Report, Return to Forever, King Crimson, Magma, Frank Zappa, Hermeto Pascoal, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, also singers like Maggie Nicols, Ursula Dudziak, Meredith Monk and Janis Joplin as well as the European avant-garde movement "Rock in Opposition" characterized by its rejection of the music industry.
  They began performing in various cultural and university spaces of Santiago de Chile, giving their first concert at the Espaciocal Cultural Center in 1986. The following year, they finally released their first production called, "Fulano" (highlight in this one, Maquinarias, Tango, Fulano, 1989, Suite Recoleta and Calcetín perseguido), breaking the encirclement of elite group, projecting itself to a massive level with a heterogeneous public and without age limits. In August 1988 the group demonstrates the latter, when more than four thousand people attend a recital held at the Nataniel Stadium of Santiago de Chile.
  His unique sound, the versatile voice of Arlette Jequier and the multi-instrumentalist character of his classmates made the proposal grow, which in its beginnings was cataloged as a derivative of jazz fusion, however "none of us studied that style or dares to consider himself a jazzman" clarified Vivanco at the time.
caption: Arlette Jequier vocalist of the band
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